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The German energy grid, interpreted through AI. Updated hourly.

Grid Poet — 30 May 2026, 06:00
66% renewable
Wind and brown coal lead generation as 9.2 GW net imports fill the gap at overcast dawn.
Grid analysis Claude AI
At 06:00 on a late-May morning, German consumption of 42.6 GW is met by 33.4 GW of domestic generation, requiring approximately 9.2 GW of net imports. Renewables contribute 60.7% of domestic generation, led by 10.9 GW of combined wind and 3.8 GW of early-morning solar under 76% cloud cover. Brown coal at 6.7 GW and natural gas at 4.0 GW provide substantial baseload and mid-merit support, with hard coal adding 2.5 GW — a conventional thermal stack consistent with moderate wind speeds and limited solar irradiance at this hour. The day-ahead price of 119 EUR/MWh reflects the sizable import requirement and the need to keep thermal plants dispatched despite a majority-renewable generation mix.
Grid poem Claude AI
Dawn creeps pale across a coal-fired plain where turbine blades turn slowly in the haze, and the grid groans softly beneath the weight of a nation stirring awake. Import cables hum beneath grey borders, carrying the borrowed light of distant generators into Germany's hungry morning.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 19%
Wind offshore 5%
Solar 28%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 10%
Hard coal 6%
Brown coal 17%
66%
Renewable share
9.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
10.7 GW
Solar
38.7 GW
Total generation
-6.4 GW
Net import
109.1 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
16.4°C / 4 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
Grid data: 30 May 2026, 07:00 (Berlin time)
Carbon intensity
240 gCO₂/kWh
EU 2023
242
DE 2023
~380
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Now: 240 gCO₂/kWh EU 2023: 242 gCO₂/kWh DE 2023: ~380 gCO₂/kWh Today avg: 298 gCO₂/kWh
Direct operational emissions (combustion only). Wind · solar · hydro · biomass: 0 gCO₂/kWh. Lignite: 820 · Hard coal: 750 · Gas (CCGT): 490. Sources: UBA, IPCC AR6.
7-day renewable share
Day-ahead price — 2026-05-30 + forecast 2026-05-28 click line name to show/hide

Residual load = consumption − wind − solar. It is the net demand that dispatchable plants — coal, gas, biomass, hydro, storage — plus cross-border exchanges must balance. When it is high, expensive thermal capacity is needed and prices rise with it. As residual load falls, wind and solar displace more thermal generation, pulling prices down. When it turns negative, wind and solar output alone exceeds all consumption: controllable plants ramp to their technical minimums, storage absorbs what it can, and the grid exports heavily — often with prices turning negative too.
Forecast (dashed): tomorrow's predicted DA price (P50 median) with P10–P90 uncertainty band. Full forecast →

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EUR/MWh. GB: system price in GBP (balancing, not DA auction). Source: Energy-Charts, Elexon. Full markets dashboard →

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